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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/ksm.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/ksm.c | 149 |
1 files changed, 110 insertions, 39 deletions
@@ -413,6 +413,12 @@ static void break_cow(struct rmap_item *rmap_item) unsigned long addr = rmap_item->address; struct vm_area_struct *vma; + /* + * It is not an accident that whenever we want to break COW + * to undo, we also need to drop a reference to the anon_vma. + */ + drop_anon_vma(rmap_item); + down_read(&mm->mmap_sem); if (ksm_test_exit(mm)) goto out; @@ -456,6 +462,79 @@ out: page = NULL; return page; } +static void remove_node_from_stable_tree(struct stable_node *stable_node) +{ + struct rmap_item *rmap_item; + struct hlist_node *hlist; + + hlist_for_each_entry(rmap_item, hlist, &stable_node->hlist, hlist) { + if (rmap_item->hlist.next) + ksm_pages_sharing--; + else + ksm_pages_shared--; + drop_anon_vma(rmap_item); + rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK; + cond_resched(); + } + + rb_erase(&stable_node->node, &root_stable_tree); + free_stable_node(stable_node); +} + +/* + * get_ksm_page: checks if the page indicated by the stable node + * is still its ksm page, despite having held no reference to it. + * In which case we can trust the content of the page, and it + * returns the gotten page; but if the page has now been zapped, + * remove the stale node from the stable tree and return NULL. + * + * You would expect the stable_node to hold a reference to the ksm page. + * But if it increments the page's count, swapping out has to wait for + * ksmd to come around again before it can free the page, which may take + * seconds or even minutes: much too unresponsive. So instead we use a + * "keyhole reference": access to the ksm page from the stable node peeps + * out through its keyhole to see if that page still holds the right key, + * pointing back to this stable node. This relies on freeing a PageAnon + * page to reset its page->mapping to NULL, and relies on no other use of + * a page to put something that might look like our key in page->mapping. + * + * include/linux/pagemap.h page_cache_get_speculative() is a good reference, + * but this is different - made simpler by ksm_thread_mutex being held, but + * interesting for assuming that no other use of the struct page could ever + * put our expected_mapping into page->mapping (or a field of the union which + * coincides with page->mapping). The RCU calls are not for KSM at all, but + * to keep the page_count protocol described with page_cache_get_speculative. + * + * Note: it is possible that get_ksm_page() will return NULL one moment, + * then page the next, if the page is in between page_freeze_refs() and + * page_unfreeze_refs(): this shouldn't be a problem anywhere, the page + * is on its way to being freed; but it is an anomaly to bear in mind. + */ +static struct page *get_ksm_page(struct stable_node *stable_node) +{ + struct page *page; + void *expected_mapping; + + page = stable_node->page; + expected_mapping = (void *)stable_node + + (PAGE_MAPPING_ANON | PAGE_MAPPING_KSM); + rcu_read_lock(); + if (page->mapping != expected_mapping) + goto stale; + if (!get_page_unless_zero(page)) + goto stale; + if (page->mapping != expected_mapping) { + put_page(page); + goto stale; + } + rcu_read_unlock(); + return page; +stale: + rcu_read_unlock(); + remove_node_from_stable_tree(stable_node); + return NULL; +} + /* * Removing rmap_item from stable or unstable tree. * This function will clean the information from the stable/unstable tree. @@ -467,22 +546,19 @@ static void remove_rmap_item_from_tree(struct rmap_item *rmap_item) struct page *page; stable_node = rmap_item->head; - page = stable_node->page; - lock_page(page); + page = get_ksm_page(stable_node); + if (!page) + goto out; + lock_page(page); hlist_del(&rmap_item->hlist); - if (stable_node->hlist.first) { - unlock_page(page); - ksm_pages_sharing--; - } else { - set_page_stable_node(page, NULL); - unlock_page(page); - put_page(page); + unlock_page(page); + put_page(page); - rb_erase(&stable_node->node, &root_stable_tree); - free_stable_node(stable_node); + if (stable_node->hlist.first) + ksm_pages_sharing--; + else ksm_pages_shared--; - } drop_anon_vma(rmap_item); rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK; @@ -504,7 +580,7 @@ static void remove_rmap_item_from_tree(struct rmap_item *rmap_item) ksm_pages_unshared--; rmap_item->address &= PAGE_MASK; } - +out: cond_resched(); /* we're called from many long loops */ } @@ -902,10 +978,8 @@ up: * If that fails, we have a ksm page with only one pte * pointing to it: so break it. */ - if (err) { - drop_anon_vma(rmap_item); + if (err) break_cow(rmap_item); - } } if (err) { put_page(kpage); @@ -935,21 +1009,25 @@ static struct stable_node *stable_tree_search(struct page *page) } while (node) { + struct page *tree_page; int ret; cond_resched(); stable_node = rb_entry(node, struct stable_node, node); + tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node); + if (!tree_page) + return NULL; - ret = memcmp_pages(page, stable_node->page); + ret = memcmp_pages(page, tree_page); - if (ret < 0) + if (ret < 0) { + put_page(tree_page); node = node->rb_left; - else if (ret > 0) + } else if (ret > 0) { + put_page(tree_page); node = node->rb_right; - else { - get_page(stable_node->page); + } else return stable_node; - } } return NULL; @@ -969,12 +1047,17 @@ static struct stable_node *stable_tree_insert(struct page *kpage) struct stable_node *stable_node; while (*new) { + struct page *tree_page; int ret; cond_resched(); stable_node = rb_entry(*new, struct stable_node, node); + tree_page = get_ksm_page(stable_node); + if (!tree_page) + return NULL; - ret = memcmp_pages(kpage, stable_node->page); + ret = memcmp_pages(kpage, tree_page); + put_page(tree_page); parent = *new; if (ret < 0) @@ -1000,7 +1083,6 @@ static struct stable_node *stable_tree_insert(struct page *kpage) INIT_HLIST_HEAD(&stable_node->hlist); - get_page(kpage); stable_node->page = kpage; set_page_stable_node(kpage, stable_node); @@ -1130,19 +1212,10 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item) } /* - * A ksm page might have got here by fork, but its other - * references have already been removed from the stable tree. - * Or it might be left over from a break_ksm which failed - * when the mem_cgroup had reached its limit: try again now. - */ - if (PageKsm(page)) - break_cow(rmap_item); - - /* - * In case the hash value of the page was changed from the last time we - * have calculated it, this page to be changed frequely, therefore we - * don't want to insert it to the unstable tree, and we don't want to - * waste our time to search if there is something identical to it there. + * If the hash value of the page has changed from the last time + * we calculated it, this page is changing frequently: therefore we + * don't want to insert it in the unstable tree, and we don't want + * to waste our time searching for something identical to it there. */ checksum = calc_checksum(page); if (rmap_item->oldchecksum != checksum) { @@ -1180,9 +1253,7 @@ static void cmp_and_merge_page(struct page *page, struct rmap_item *rmap_item) * in which case we need to break_cow on both. */ if (!stable_node) { - drop_anon_vma(tree_rmap_item); break_cow(tree_rmap_item); - drop_anon_vma(rmap_item); break_cow(rmap_item); } } |